Social Influence and Exercise: A Meta-Analysis

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert V. Carron ◽  
Heather A. Hausenblas ◽  
Diane Mack
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Adherence Behavior ◽  
Exercise Behaviors ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Class Leaders ◽  
Important Others ◽  
Task Cohesion ◽  
The Impact

Using meta-analysis, the impact of a number of manifestations of social influence (important others, family, class leaders, coexercisers, social cohesion, and task cohesion) on exercise behaviors (adherence and compliance), cognitions (intentions and efficacy), and affect (satisfaction and attitude) was examined. The results showed that social influence generally has a small to moderate positive effect (i.e., effect size [ES] from .20 to .50). However, four moderate to large effect sizes (i.e., ES from .50 to .80) were found: family support and attitudes about exercise, task cohesion and adherence behavior, important others and attitudes about exercise, and family support and compliance behavior.

scholarly journals The ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 180454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre O. Jacquet ◽  
Lou Safra ◽  
Valentin Wyart ◽  
Nicolas Baumard ◽  
Coralie Chevallier
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Initial Finding ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Evaluation Task ◽  
The Impact

There is considerable variability in the degree to which individuals rely on their peers to make decisions. Although theoretical models predict that environmental risks shift the cost–benefit trade-off associated with social information use, this idea has received little empirical support. Here we aim to test the effect of childhood environmental adversity on humans' susceptibility to follow others’ opinion in the context of a standard face evaluation task. Results collected in a pilot study involving 121 adult participants tested online showed that susceptibility to social influence and childhood environmental adversity are positively associated. Computational analyses further confirmed that this effect is not explained by the fact that participants exposed to early adversity produce noisier decisions overall but that they are indeed more likely to follow the group's opinion. To test the robustness of these findings, a pre-registered direct replication using an optimal sample size was run. The results obtained from 262 participants in the pre-registered study did not reveal a significant association between childhood adversity and task performance but the meta-analysis ran on both the pilot and the pre-registered study replicated the initial finding. This work provides experimental evidence for an association between individuals' past ecology and their susceptibility to social influence.

The impact of weight loss on depression: A preliminary meta-analysis

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Blaine ◽  
Jennifer McElroy ◽  
Hilary Vidair
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Impact

On the Impact of Aptness, Conventionality and Familiarity on Metaphor Processing from a Meta-analytical Point of View

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-106
Author(s):  
Csilla Rákosi
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Psycholinguistic Research ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
Metaphor Processing ◽  
The Impact

Psycholinguistic research into metaphor processing is burdened with empirical problems as experiments provide diverging evidence on the impact of conventionality, familiarity and aptness, and with conceptual issues as the interpretation and operationalization of the three concepts mentioned, as well as the related predictions which can be drawn from theories of metaphor processing, are controversial in the literature. This paper uses tools of statistical meta-analysis in order to bring us closer to the solution of these problems and reveal future lines of research.

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